San Diego Sports
This year is always a special time of year. It’s our annual reminder that the gatekeepers for Baseball’s hallowed Hall are, for the most part, old traditionalists who refuse to adapt. Although we’re not supposed to mention his name, it took Jonah Keri years to convince his colleagues to give Tim Raines, a seemingly unworthy […]
Approximately 900 regular season MLB games were played this year in front of cardboard cutout fans with simulated crowd noise orchestrated by professional sound engineers. But in late September, MLB announced that a limited number of fans would be allowed at the new Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, to watch the National League Championship […]
Series note: This is the second article in a series of check-ins with fans in the Padres community during the coronavirus suspension of the 2020 MLB season. Last week, I profiled Petco Park organist Bobby Cressey. This week, it’s my pleasure to share FriarGal‘s story. FriarGal On the #PadresTwitter timeline, FriarGal is one of those […]
The 2020 season was not supposed to go like this. We brought back the brown, exchanged managers, kept Wil Myers (because that’s what we do), and tinkered with the lineup. Spring Training was in full swing, and then it wasn’t. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, baseball was one of the many enjoyments of life to […]
“Spring Training” – two words that, for baseball fans, mean that our drought is over. It also signals that two other words will be heard again: #TheYumaYears After becoming a National League franchise in 1969, the Padres initially considered holding spring training in Borrego Springs before settling on Yuma, Arizona, where they trained through 1993. […]
We all have a tipping point. Mine was when columnist George Will complained about Alex Bregman and Juan Soto carrying their bats to first base in Game 6 of this year’s World Series, saying it was an “infectious virus” and “a stain on baseball’s unwritten standards.” Eyes rolled, including mine. My only regret in that […]
If you’re on #PadresTwitter, chances are good that you follow Woods, Eric, and Corey. Can you guess who answered a cycle of questions a certain way?
@courtneyskag Courtney (age 28; manager at a software company) was raised in East County. Here’s her take on the ongoing #PadresTwitter debate about Poway. It is not East County. Anything north of Miramar is North County in my book. It’s another world, might as well be Temecula. At the tender age of seven she experienced […]